Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Lower than crime

"All genres are scorned by literary types, but none more so than romance. In lit-land, it's lower than crime, lower than horror, lower, even, than sci-fi. But then, it's a genre written by women for women. Unless "a guy writes one and they call it something else. And it gets reviewed and made into a movie," says Roberts. She doesn't actually say the words "David Nicholls" or "One Day", but they hover in the air."